Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand, credited to Alexandre Dumas, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand by Alexandre Dumas. (Translated by George Burnham Ives.) Read in English by John Van Stan This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a prominent dramatist, a student of Musäus, whose royalist and conservative writings ultimately led to his assassination by a member of a revolutionary liberal Burschenschaft. - Summary by Carolin

Recording facts

• Recording title: Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Author credits: Alexandre Dumas
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:59:27

Catalogue topics

• assassination
• august von kotzebue
• musäus
• stabbing
• burschenschaft

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 30:32
2. 02 - Section 2 — 30:15
3. 03 - Section 3 — 24:03
4. 04 - Section 4 — 34:37

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